Review: J.E.S.u.S at Rainbow Venues

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It was easy to see that this was going to be another big event in Birmingham's rave calender, as four of the electronic music world's biggest DJ’s of the moment: Jackmaster, Eats Everything, Skream and Seth Troxler set themselves on a mini tour playing a wide spectrum of eclectic beats to the crazy raving masses over the Bank Holiday Weekend.

With the guys DJing the night before at Barcelona's colourful and vibrant Elrow party, it was then onto the second city for the super group's Brummie debut.

The event was kicked off by Rainbow resident Tom Shorterz who played a mixture of retro and current house jams including Kerri Chandler's house banger 'Bar A Thym', which started off the rave with a touch of class.

Afterwards it was then onto the main event as half of J.E.S.u.S rocked up to shake the warehouse, in the form of Bristolian funster Eats Everything and Croyden dubstep turned house and techno don Skream.

The tunes and drinks were flowing well into the set when Skream and Eats played Geeeman's techno stomper 'Bang't', old skool veteran Armando's 'Let There Be House' and Tronco Traxx's renowned 'Walk For Me'.

It was two hours in before the second half of the J.E.S.u.S troops arrived, but when Glaswegian party boy Jackmaster and American techno enthusiast Seth Troxler came and joined the rest of the gang, the crowd really got the crowd moving. Jack promptly dropped Erol Alkan and 2ManyDJs recent club favourite 'Skating Beats' by the mighty Edward (above) to the delight of the sweaty masses.

As the drinks kept on coming the lads really cut loose and started to bash out a whole bunch of heavy hitters by spinning Green Velvet's 'Satisfy', KiNK's current euphoric banger 'Cloud Generator', Artwork's heavy Dance Mania homage 'Let Go Of My Acid' and new Numbers signing Adesse Versions' 'Pride'.

When the night time came and filled the warehouse with lasers, the quartet delved deep and got out the classics, Jackmaster brought the funk by playing Prince's 'Controversy', Eats dropped Joey Beltram's R & S classic 'Energy Flash' and Skream spun K Klass' nineties house jam 'Let Me Show You Love'.

In the final hour, Eats played his own carnival tinged remix of Basement Jaxx's 'Flylife', Seth laid down Marshall Jefferson's pumping 'Move Your Body' and Skream dropped Armand Van Helden's Garage classic mix of CJ Bollands 'Sugar Is Sweeter'.

It was then down to Jackmaster to finish off the nights proceedings by rinsing Sylvester's disco gem 'You Make Me Feel' (above) to a warehouse full of loved up Brummie's that clearly didn’t want the party to end.

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